Just Say Whoa Equine Therapy Group for Young Teens Every Saturday, March 7th- April 18th (skipping Saturday April 11th). 1:00pm - 3:00pm This 6-week group supports young teens (ages 11-13) in exploring personal identity, strengthening self-empowerment, and holding self-acceptance through connection with horses. Come learn tools for de-stressing and coping with anxiety/ depression while also learning how to work with our equine companions who always accept us. Inclusive for Queer, Nonbinary, and/or LGBTQIA+ identifying teens. Suggested donation $20 each group (although no payment required to attend). No prior horse experience needed. Close-toed shoes required. Please email caitlin.lowehoover@naropa.edu with questions and to sign-up.

My background includes working with both adults and adolescents who are struggling with recovering from trauma, abuse, and family dysfunction as well as with those who are seeking a guide to assist them through a tough stage. I have specialized training in couples/marriage counseling through my masters degree program, and am currently completing trainings in both Sex Therapy and Addictions counseling. I believe that with the support and guidance of a trusted therapist, we experience the safety needed to move out of our zones of familiarity and allow ourselves to discover and incorporate empowered ways to address long-standing issues in our lives.

At Root Connections Counseling, I focus on grief and bereavement, couples work and sex therapy, as well as men's work and redefining masculinity. As a bilingual therapist, I offer my services in both English and Spanish. The name Root Connections comes from my philosophy of psychotherapy. Oftentimes, we patch up larger fixes with temporary Band-Aid solutions. At Root Connections, we aim to drop deeper into the root of the issue, finding solutions from the ground up. When we heal our roots, we can walk away with a richer sense of self and strength for all areas of life.

Join me on a collaborative and solution-oriented journey to find your full meaning, potential and passion.

My work involves a deep personal commitment to growing through grief. Specifically, I've developed a short-term therapeutic intervention intended to diminish suffering by expanding stories. It can be experienced independent of, or in collaboration with, ongoing individual psychotherapy. Whatever your losses, sustained or on the horizon, the meaning you make of them requires a capacity to create that, often elusive, 'new normal'. Through a brief process ( 6-12 sessions) we will engage in a collaborative effort to explore new perspectives, aiming to reveal the stories your loss has yet to tell. Ultimately, we will formulate our understandings through a concrete, creative project that memorializes what we discover. I believe that it is not suffering, but meaningless suffering, that defeat us...We can use our suffering to move us forward.